Kyllinia marchadi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| PRESERVED_SPECIMEN; Philbertia marchadi Knudsen, 1956; Type status: HOLOTYPE; Identified by: N/A; Individual count: 1 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Kyllinia |
| Species: | K. marchadi
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| Binomial name | |
| Kyllinia marchadi (Knudsen, 1956)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 4.2 mm.[2]
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal, Guinea and Angola.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Gofas, S. (2011). Kyllinia marchadi (Knudsen, 1956). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=592359 on 2017-08-02
- ^ a b Garilli V. & Galletti L. 2007. Kyllinia parentalis (Neogastropoda: Turridae), new genus and species from the Plio–Pleistocene of the Central Mediterranean area. Journal of Paleontology, 81(4): 746–753[dead link]
- Knudsen, J. 1956. Remarks on a collection of marine Prosobranchs from Senegal Bulletin de l’Institut Franc¸ais d’Afrique Noire. XVIII, s. A, 2:514–529.
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
- "Kyllinia marchadi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- MNHN, Paris: holotype